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Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
130 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1860, eleven-year-old Annie, who lives at the Red Buttes Pony Express station in the Nebraska Territory, asks Pony Express rider Billy Cody to help her find the person responsible for sabatoging her favorite pony Magpie.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, eleven-year-old Innie joins the library club at a settlement house that serves immigrant families of Boston's North End, but when items and money disappear from the settlement house, Innie's past as a troublemaker puts her under suspicion.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
150 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1958, Mendy puts herself in danger when she discovers that the Ku Klux Klan is planning to bomb the Highlander Folk School in order to disrupt a visit from Mendy's hero, Eleanor Roosevelt.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
163 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
155 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the start of the Klondike gold rush of 1897, while traveling through Canada with her father, uncle and friends, twelve-year-old aspiring author Hetty tries to determine the identity of a thief.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
173 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1724, twelve-year-old Rachel and her friend Sally discover a pirates' hiding place on a deserted island near Charles Town, South Carolina, and they suspect it may be connected to the woman who will soon become Rachel's stepmother.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
155 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1868, twelve-year-old Emma and her widowed mother move to a tiny mining town in Colorado Territory to start a newspaper, but someone is determined to scare them away.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 19
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Rose sets out to prove her brother's innocence when he is accused of shooting a politician during a Wild West show performance in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1886.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 21
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
153 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, twelve-year-old Rhoda investigates her suspicion that a wrecker may be luring ships to their destruction on the Virginia barrier island where her father is Keeper of a U.S. Lifesaving Station. Includes historical notes on the United States Life-Saving Service.
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 22
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Elspeth Monro, a Scottish settler and weaver's apprentice on the North Carolina frontier in 1775, must find out who is betraying her Loyalist family during the months before the start of the Revolutionary War.
Author
Series
American Girl mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
181 p. : ill. (some color) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her family temporarily moves into a luxury apartment building in 1904 Manhattan, eleven-year-old Samantha tries to discover whether a series of mishaps is related to a curse on the building's owner.
Author
Series
American Girl mysteries volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
180 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working as a reporter during her summer vacation in 1935, Kit uncovers a mystery at the Cincinnati Zoo involving suspected break-ins at the monkey house.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
132 p. ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1765, the arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Percé village. Includes glossary and historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
Author
Series
American Girl mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
165 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
During a visit to her grandparents' Illinois farm in 1944, ten-year-old Molly tries to prove the innocence of a German-American neighbor whom the FBI suspects of smuggling anti-American propaganda. Includes historical notes about life on the home front in World War II.
Author
Series
American Girl mini mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
87 p. : col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains twenty mystery stories for readers to solve. The solutions can be found by lifting the flaps on the back pages of the book.
Author
Series
American Girl mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
163 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1776, Penny is concerned that the British Army will steal her horse and burn her family's plantation.
Author
Series
American Girl mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Pleasant
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A stranger leads Josefina to believe that the old stories about buried treasure in New Mexico might be true.
Author
Series
American Girl mysteries volume 10
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
While volunteering as a magazine delivery girl in a convalescent hospital during the Second World War, Molly uncovers a mystery involving the theft of rationed food supplies for sale on the black market.